Well, our Ohio excursion is complete! It was a great trip! taking it with Grandma and Stacey was a great idea... and Grandma loved the "road trip" feel. I'll give you a short overview of the weekend and try to explain a little about the interview. It all flew by so fast... but it got me really excited about everything!
We left Illinois around 7:45 Saturday morning, the drove went well and we only stopped a few times for breaks. The drive was fun... however the scenery wasn't very exciting until we got into the southern part of Indiana where there are more trees. We arrived in Piqua, IN around 4:30 and checked into the hotel. It was earlier then we expected so we headed over to eat dinner at one of my favorite restaurants: Bob Evans. Stacey and Grandma had never been and they thoroughly enjoyed it!
After the wonderful dinner, we went back to the hotel and spend the evening relaxing and enjoying the surroundings. Stacey and Grandma headed downstairs to venture out into the mall that the hotel was connected to. The hotel was in a perfect area, connected to a mall, surrounded by food and close to the interstate.
It wasn't until 9:30 when I finally heard from Colin. He was really excited to meet me and invited us to church with him the next day. Stacey didn't want to leave the dog, so Grandma and I went instead.
When we met them in the morning downstairs (we were staying in the same hotel so we met in the lobby for the hotels breakfast), they were just as I expected them to be. They were absolutely the sweetest people I have met.
Colin and his wife, Melissa were in Ohio meeting with a man named Randall, who was planning on moving to Africa to join them with ICY as the executive director of the Africa branch. After breakfast, we met Randall, piled into their cars and headed off to church... which was very exciting. His church is the growing process. They were having a ground breaking ceremony that afternoon for their new building. However, the church service was really good! After church, we headed back to the hotel and met up with Stacey, and her and Grandma went to lunch while I had my interview with Colin and Melissa.
The interview was amazing! At first, we just talked... they answered a few more of my questions and told me some things that I didn't know or thought to ask questions about. Then Colin turned on the camera... and made a video interview of me to send to the others in the UK. He then was going to email it to them and they were going to put a packet together and send it out to the churches. He said that with the churches having my info, I could hear anything starting tomorrow... wow. He also told me that I will for sure know whether or not I'm going in January by the end of october, or the middle of november at the latest... so please be praying about the church placement.
Then when Stacey and Grandma got back, we left and headed home. It made for a great trip! Even the ride home was smooth! We only got detoured one time because of the closed road but the gps that we borrowed from Shannon and Josh helped a lot! Stacey wants one now. And Grandma sure enjoyed the whole trip! Even the long drive!
Anyway, if anyone has any questions, just let me know! There was so much more to explain about the interview and if you still have any questions about the program, I may be able to answer them now!
